It was on this day in what is now Burma, that hundreds of Japanese soldiers were attacked and eaten by crocodiles.
Just before dawn on this day, a Soviet cosmonaut was wandering drunk and stepped in front of a train.
Christopher Latham Sholes was a newspaper publisher, politician and most notably - the inventor of the QWERTY keyboard.
The tree was a prominent local landmark with a long history as a gathering place for political rallies and public hangings.
President James K. Polk posed for the oldest surviving photograph of a sitting president.
Three rockhounds found what appeared to be a manmade piece of machinery encased in a 500,000 year old rock.
The spacecraft performed a slingshot maneuver around the Earth that propelled it toward its rendezvous with a peanut-shaped rock.
George A. Stephen died on this day. He left behind one of the greatest gifts in American history, the Weber grill.
It's remembered as one of the most extravagant soirees in US history.
It was on this day that two satellites slammed into each other 485 miles out in space.
After a couple of slices, Shepard connected on a shot that according to him flew for "miles and miles and miles."
Kuda Bux was a famous Indian mystic who thrilled audiences and baffled scientists.
It was on this day that an Austrian tailor/inventor fell to his death from the Eiffel Tower.